Patient Care Technician - Senior (Casual)

UPMC•Cranberry Township, PA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

UPMC Northwest is hiring a casual Patient Care Technician - Senior or Patient Care Technician - Specialist to join the Emergency Department Team. Final candidates will be selected for a job title within the career ladder based on education, experience, and manager discretion at the time of offer. The role performs UPMC nursing core assistant responsibilities and additional patient-care tasks, including point-of-care testing, vital signs, telemetry, specimen collection, simple dressings, restraint care, bladder scanning, and patient transport. The Senior-level technician also achieves and maintains competency in at least one advanced skill based on department needs, such as basic arrhythmia, complex wound care, 12-lead EKGs, or NG tube clamping and removal. The technician contributes to unit operations and patient safety, assists patients and families under RN direction, documents care, transports cardiac-monitored patients, and completes clerical functions as needed. The role may involve entering rooms where medications are stored or transporting medications between departments when transporting patients.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Meet one of the following experience and education pathways: two years of general healthcare experience and meet the requirements of the Patient Care Technician title; one year of general healthcare experience and enrollment in a PT/OT/PA program with at least one clinical rotation completed; or one year of general healthcare experience and a completed bachelor's degree in a health sciences field.
Successfully complete the Patient Care Technician Senior class.
Successfully complete eRecord training.
Complete CPR training based on AHA standards, including didactic and skills demonstration components, within 30 days of hire.
Hold Basic Life Support (BLS) or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification.
Hold current licensure in the state where the facility is located, or a multistate license issued by a participating Nursing Licensure Compact state when applicable. Employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who change residency to the facility's state must apply for licensure in that state within 60 days.

Nice To Haves

Nursing student who has completed one clinical rotation.
Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) or Paramedic, or current enrollment in an EMT or Paramedic program.
ACLS certification.
Successful completion of the appropriate UPMC cardiac rhythm course, if required by organizational guidelines and unit-based clinical operations.

Responsibilities

Perform nursing core assistant responsibilities, including bathing, feeding, transporting, toileting, ambulating, turning, and repositioning patients.
Perform point-of-care testing, including blood glucose; obtain weights, vital signs, and intake and output; apply or reapply telemetry monitors; and attend to hospital-acquired condition and patient safety indicators.
Perform simple dressings; place and remove restraints; conduct bladder scans; collect specimens; and complete intra-hospital patient transportation using ticket to ride procedures.
Achieve and maintain competency in, or perform, at least one advanced skill based on department operational need: basic arrhythmia, complex wound care, 12-lead EKGs, or NG tube clamping and removal.
Report equipment malfunctions to the appropriate department.
Contribute to universal unit activities, including responding to call lights and telephones, passing meal trays, and transporting patients.
Identify and communicate learning needs to the unit director or direct leader, and request assistance with planning and prioritizing activities as needed.
Demonstrate understanding of cultural diversity, horizontal violence, and impairment in the health professions, and support workplace safety for patients and self.
Provide instruction to patients and families under the direction of the RN.
Apply, monitor, and remove patient restraints as permitted by physician or hospital protocol.
Assume responsibility for assignments, demonstrate awareness of how behavior affects department efficiency, and support department projects and quality initiatives.
Document in the medical record according to established procedures.
Transport cardiac-monitored patients within the hospital and complete department clerical functions as needed.
Transport medications between departments when transporting patients, where applicable.
Perform in accordance with system-wide competencies and behaviors, and perform other duties as assigned.
Complete an annual professional contribution determined after hire.